Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?

Tobias Schmidt and Christian Rammer

No 07-052, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms? innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success with product and process innovation, using data from the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2005 (German CIS 4). Non-technological innovation is defined as the introduction of new organisational methods or the introduction of new marketing methods. We find that the determinants of a firm?s propensity to introduce technological and non-technological innovations are very similar and that both types are closely related. There are only small effects of non-technological innovation on a firm? profit margin, which contrasts the strong effects to be found from technological innovation. However, non-technological innovation spurs success with product and process innovation terms of sales with market novelties and cost reductions from new processes.

Keywords: organisational innovation; marketing innovation; effects of innovation; CIS 4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 O30 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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